The Taste of Ghosts in the World

"I'm going to the hospital to see Xiaomei, and I'll be back before dinner." Qi Mu said to Feng Baisui before going out.

The latter responded in a bad tone, and continued to stare at the computer.Since the sudden attack last time, Qi Mu was worried that it would be difficult to explain, and he would not take Hu Yaohui when he met again.

After leaving the house, I received a call from Hu Yaohui.

"Where are you?"

"I've already left the house, I'll be there soon."

"I'm just outside. Is there a station near your house? I'll wait for you there, let's go there together."

"it is good."

Seeing Qi Mu, Hu Yaohui beckoned to him and ran over. He didn't bring up the incident that day, and he didn't ask why. Qi Mu just took advantage of the situation and pretended not to know, so he kept silent, so nothing happened between the two of them. Variety.

Talking casually and walking towards the hospital, Hu Yaohui asked him, "Are you still living alone now?"

Qi Mu nodded.

"Why don't you live with me? Anyway, I'm alone."

"No need," Qi Mu said, "I'm more used to living by myself."

"You are still like this. You don't like to get along with people. Every time you see you, you are alone." Hu Yaohui turned his head and looked at him, with some nostalgic eyes in his eyes: "We didn't know how to get along with people before. Talkative, not as cute as you, no one wants to be friends with me at all."

Qi Mu chuckled, "Didn't I be friends with you?"

"Yes, the teacher and classmates like you, but you only talk to me, and you only play with me." Hu Yaohui also smiled: "Do you know how much I liked you at that time? I ran after your ass all day Come and run, I really want to be good friends with you for the rest of my life."

"Aren't we also friends now?" Qi Mu felt a little embarrassed by his blunt words, and quickly changed the subject, "We haven't seen each other for a few years, and yet you have a girlfriend, how did you and Xiaomei meet? "

"..."

The other party did not answer.

Qi Mu stopped, only to realize that the people beside him hadn't followed.

"Ahui?"

Suddenly his neck was tightly strangled, his mouth and nose were covered by something, and the peculiar smell rushed into his nasal cavity. He was dizzy for a while, and he vaguely heard someone saying in his ears: "If there is no such thing... I will always like you ...likes you more than anyone in the class..."

Then it went dark and he lost consciousness.

The game can easily make people forget the concept of time. When Feng Baisui finished the dungeon task and went offline, and was about to take a break, he found that Qi Mu hadn't come back yet. Looking at the time, it was already past seven o'clock in the evening.

He seems to have said he'll be back before dinner...

In my impression, similar things happened before, Feng Baisui immediately became nervous and decided to go out to find someone.

Before going out, Qi Mu said he would go to the hospital to see Xiaomei, but when he arrived at the hospital, he only saw Xiaomei sleeping on the hospital bed, there was no Qi Mu, nor Hu Yaohui at all.

An ominous feeling flashed in his heart. With the experience from last time, he went directly to old man Zhang's shop, dragged out the old man who was still eating, snatched the mobile phone, and dialed Qi Mu's number, but there was a call from the receiver. "Shutdown" notification sound.

Or call Hu Yaohui?But he didn't know that person's phone number at all.

Feng Baisui clenched his phone tightly and hammered the table irritably. Old man Zhang looked at his phone distressedly, and suggested, "Do you want to ask that kid from the Qi family?"

Fortunately, the old man saved Qi Buyang's phone number, and Feng Baisui called it.

"Qi Mu? He hasn't been here, what happened to him?"

"Missing."

"Missing?! What's going on!"

"It's hard to say." Feng Baisui finished speaking briefly and was about to hang up.

"Wait! You're at Master Zhang's side, right? I'll come over right away!" After he said anxiously, Qi Buyang hung up faster than him.

Ten minutes later, Qi Buyang arrived, and Luo Lang followed, with the same half-smile expression on his face, but now Feng Baisui had no time to take care of him.

Several people discussed where Qi Mu might go, Feng Baisui insisted that the biggest problem was Hu Yaohui, so they went to the hospital again.

Xiaomei, who was still asleep, was roughly woken up, and when she opened her eyes, she saw a boy in Tang suit standing in front of her hospital bed, and a man with long hair behind him.

"you……"

"We are Qi Mu's friends. You should know him, right? He came to see you in the hospital this afternoon and is missing now. Do you know his whereabouts?" Qi Buyang finished speaking in one breath.

Xiaomei was stunned for a moment, "Qi Mu? He didn't come, but Ah Hui came once."

"Hu Yaohui?! Where is he now?"

"I do not know either."

Qi Buyang quickly took out his mobile phone and handed it to her, "Do you have his mobile number? Call and ask."

Seeing how anxious they were, Xiaomei didn't ask any more questions, and obediently dialed the number, and listened to it for a while, then frowned suspiciously, and dialed again.

Qi Buyang asked from the side: "What's the matter? Didn't he answer?"

Xiaomei stared blankly at the phone, "...it's an empty number."

Qi Mu was standing at an intersection with people coming and going, looking at the people passing by, his ears were full of noisy voices, he lost his mind for a moment.

When did you come here?What were you doing before?

My mind is empty, I can't remember...

He just felt that he shouldn't belong here, but suddenly appeared in this place. The strange feeling made him a little flustered. After calming down a little, he decided to find out what this place was first.

"Qi Mu, Qi Mu."

Suddenly someone called him.

Lowering his head, a little girl stood in front of him, holding his hand, smiling sweetly, "Qi Mu, we meet again!"

"Are you... Miaomiao?"

She nodded.

Why did the Miaomiao in the cornfield appear here?

Qi Mu raised his head, looked around, and suddenly found that the passers-by around him were all faces he had seen before, including the security guards in the community, the neighbor's old man, the school guards and teachers, classmates in the class... and the faces he had met before. There are ghosts of all kinds, some of them intersect, and some of them are glimpsed inadvertently.

Everyone hurriedly walked, as if they couldn't see him, passing by and walking away without turning their eyes, but soon, the same person appeared from another direction and passed him again.

It was as if the intersection revolved around him, and all the pedestrians walked around him.

"Miao Miao, where is this?"

Qi Mu lowered his head and asked, only to find that the little girl in front of him had disappeared at some point, and when he looked up again, the bustling intersection turned out to be empty.

His heart skipped a beat, he rubbed his eyes, and looked again. The road that was empty a second ago was suddenly full of people coming and going. When he looked closely at the faces of those people, they all became blurred, and they were no longer the ones he knew before. that group of people.

What the hell is going on here?

At this time, a young mother walked in front of him holding a child, and Qi Mu was stunned by the side profile that flashed by. This woman...

His eyes slid down and settled on the child, with soft short hair, white and tender face, crooked eyes, familiar innocent smile, especially the velvet overalls with a sense of the times.

This is……

Qi Mu stared wide-eyed and looked at this intersection—the billboards on the street corner, the traffic lights that don’t turn on yellow lights, the old-fashioned trash cans...

This place, he has been here!

Before he could sort out the messy memories in his head, the mother pulled the child who was concentrating on playing with toys, and ran up the zebra crossing at a faster pace. The green light on the opposite side was already blinking.

In the middle of the walk, the child stopped suddenly and looked up to the side. The green light had already turned into a red light. A large truck drove over quickly, and the young mother only had time to shout: "Mumu!" Pushing the child out, the screeching sound of brakes sounded, and the woman had already rolled under the car, with half of her body still exposed, thick blood oozing out from under the wheel little by little.

The cry of the child was heart-piercing, a large group of people surrounded it, the cars next to it stopped one after another, and everyone stretched their necks to look at the scene of the accident.

Qi Mu's palms began to feel cold, and his face turned pale. Instead of surrounding him, he took a few steps back, moved his throat, and gently called out the long-lost address: "Mom..."

The scene in front of him suddenly disappeared completely, replaced by a familiar basketball court, a row of old-fashioned teaching buildings, and the old tree with crooked neck.

Qi Mu recognized it at a glance, this is the elementary school he stayed in for six years.

A puff of black smoke billowed from the teaching building in front of us, followed by chaotic screams, the doors of the classrooms on the second floor were opened, and the children ran out scrambling to the stairs.The fire spread rapidly, and the smoke became thicker and thicker. When the last two children in the classroom ran to the door hand in hand, the flames had already chased after them.

The female teacher who ran out with the students before turned back and stood in front of the door and stretched out her hand to them. The child behind accidentally tripped and fell, and at the same time tugged at the hem of the front one, pulling him staggering , the female teacher called them anxiously, her face was smoky with thick smoke, and the flames had already licked her feet, the child in front threw away his companion's tightly clenched hands and threw himself into the teacher's arms.

The horizontal bar on the door frame could no longer withstand the high temperature, and the whole bar fell down with sparks. The female teacher looked back at the students behind the fire wall, gritted her teeth for the last time, hugged the rescued one, turned and ran away.

The child who was left alone on the fire scene was still lying on the ground, crying and crying with his mouth open, his voice was so hoarse that it was hard to hear.

But Qi Mu knew what he was shouting, he was calling his name.

Faded memories came back up again, he remembered that day, curled up in the teacher's arms, and could still hear Hu Yaohui's call from behind him: "Qi Mu—Qi Mu—don't leave me—"

Every word struck his heart.

The fire scene in front of him gradually faded away, Qi Mu closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, he was already standing on a tree-lined road, the cool wind was blowing gently on his cheeks, and in front of him was a calm lake, shining in the sun. With golden waves.

"Can you see me?" A familiar voice suddenly sounded in my ear.

He turned his head and saw the smiling hanged ghost.

"I……"

"Yes, can others not see you?" A crisp child's voice cut in, and Qi Mu realized that the other party was not talking to him.

The little boy next to the hanged ghost was the one I saw at the intersection just now. At this moment, he was holding on to the stone railing of Longhu, raising his head to talk to the hanged ghost.

Looking at myself when I was a child instead of in the mirror, this feeling is very strange, Qi Mu stood quietly and listened to what they said.

"Why is there a rope around your neck?"

"This is my necklace."

"Are there really dragons in Dragon Lake?"

"I don't know, maybe there is."

At this time, the young mother came out from the store and waved to Xiao Qimu.

"I'm leaving," he said before running back, "see you tomorrow!"

"Okay, I'll wait." The Hanged Ghost waved gently.

Qi Mu was taken aback for a moment, and suddenly remembered what the Hanged Ghost had said——

"I met a child here ten years ago. When he left, he also said that he would come to talk to me, but he never appeared again."

Could it be that the child...is himself?

I met him ten years ago, but I don't remember it at all.Why did I forget him?When we met again ten years later, did he see that I was that kid back then?

A faint sourness filled his heart, Qi Mu stood where he was, staring blankly at himself who was walking away.

After walking for a while, Xiao Qimu turned back, and then suddenly opened his eyes wide. He didn't know what he saw, and his face was full of disbelief.

Qi Mu felt strange, and followed him back, and was stunned, unable to blink for a long time with his eyes open.

At that moment, he thought he saw the most amazing sight of his life.

Little Qi Mu was led away by his mother, and the mother and son continued to walk forward. Qi Mu came back to his senses and continued to follow them, rounding a street corner, and came to a lively intersection.

With a shudder in my heart, I immediately realized that this was the previous intersection again!

He suddenly felt that although he didn't know what was going on, since he could finally see the past, maybe he could prevent that tragedy from happening, or he could give it a try.

But the mother and son disappeared in a flash, Qi Mu turned around anxiously, saw a translucent ghost hovering by the side of the road, and thought of a ghost who said that all the ghosts nearby knew him, wondering if it was like this when he was a child?

Before he could think about it, he stopped the ghost and asked him, "Do you know Qi Mu? It's the kid who can see ghosts."

The other party shook his head blankly.

At this time, mother led Xiao Qi Mu out of the department store, passed him directly, and walked towards the crosswalk.

Qi Mu wanted to step forward to stop them, but found that he couldn't touch them at all, so he had to follow along, trying countless times to get their attention, but all failed.

The ghost who was questioned just now followed him idly. Little Qi Mu found him and turned to look at him curiously. The ghost scratched his head and asked, "Are you Qi Mu? The kid who can see ghosts?" ?”

Before the other party could answer, he heard a heart-wrenching cry from the side: "Mu Mu!"

A pair of hands reached out and pushed the child out who hadn't figured out the situation. The sharp brake sound sounded again, and the exclamation of passers-by could be heard.

Qi Mu lowered his head and saw his mother's blood trickle down to his feet. He pursed his lips and closed his eyes in despair.